The Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico (AMPR) and its Local Sindical took to a press conference on Nov. 2 to demand a concrete calendar for disbursing $90.4 million in Carrera Magisterial back pay owed to 5,850 active and retired public school teachers. ^[1][2][3] The money is not new spending: the owed funds cover Carrera Magisterial payments accrued from 2010 through June of 2025, ^[4][5] and for some individual teachers the unpaid balance runs as high as $60,000. ^[6] Gov. Jenniffer González Colón announced on June 22 that the $90.4 million had been identified. ^[7][8] Four months later, an ongoing audit still holds up the disbursement approval, ^[9] and no payment schedule has been given to the thousands of teachers awaiting the money. ^[10][11] The bottleneck, as the union laid it out, is procedural: the Fiscal Oversight Board required an audit of the salary claims before the funds could move. ^[12] That audit was originally estimated to take two months; three have passed. ^[13] The union has taken its case directly to the budget office, requesting a payment schedule from OGP. ^[14] AMPR president Víctor Bonilla Sánchez wrote to the OGP director on Oct. 26; as of the morning of the press conference, no reply had come. ^[15][16] The association also sent the governor a letter asking her to intervene. ^[17] The pressure campaign is layered: the association filed three lawsuits against the Department of Education in 2024, ^[18] and its legal advisers have not ruled out further legal action. ^[19] The dispute is also pulling the teacher movement in two directions: other teacher groups have planned a protest at Plaza Colón in Old San Juan for Nov. 5. ^[20][21] That leaves the question a reader cares about with a shape: the money is identified, ^[7] a schedule has been requested, ^[14] and what stands between teachers and their pay is one unfinished audit and the approval it gates. ^[9][12][11]